Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game: exclusive poster

Exclusive: A brand new character poster of Benedict Cumberbatch in Alan
Turing biopic, The Imitation Game

By Jacob Stolworthy

12:36PM BST 25 Sep 2014

Below is an exclusive character poster for The Imitation Game, in which Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing.

The film – directed by Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) – follows mathmatician and pioneering computer scientist Turing during his assistance in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code that helped lead the Allies to victory.

Turing was a pioneer of modern computing who was credited by Winston Churchill with helping the Allies save thousands of lives in the war. He was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952, tragically dying two years later from cyanide poisoning. Turing was finally given a royal pardon in 2013.